Harvard Business Review Press: 568 books
The Sponsor Effect
How to Be a Better Leader by Investing in Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Are you investing in the right people?
Many people know the benefit of finding a sponsor--someone who goes beyond traditional mentorship to partner with a junior-level employee to help build their skills, advocate for them when opportunities arise, and open doors. But few realize that being...
The Essential Advantage
How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Conventional wisdom on strategy is no longer a reliable guide. In Essential Advantage, Booz & Company's Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.
Achieving...
World 3.0
Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?
Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or...
by Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
In this McKinsey Award-winning article, first published in May 1989, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad explain that Western companies have wasted too much time and energy replicating the cost and quality advantages their global competitors already experience. Canon and other world-class competitors have...
The First 90 Days in Government
Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions...
Immunity to Change
How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly...
Managing the Older Worker
How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Your organization needs older workers more than ever: They transfer knowledge between generations, transmit your company's values to new hires, make excellent mentors for younger employees, and provide a "just in time" workforce for special projects.
Yet more of these workers are...
Set-up-to-Fail Syndrome
Overcoming the Undertow of Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Do you have an employee whose performance keeps deteriorating-despite your close monitoring? Brace yourself: You may be at fault-by unknowingly triggering the set-up-to-fail syndrome. Perhaps things started off swimmingly. But then something--a missed deadline, a lost client-made you question the...
Senior Leadership Teams
What It Takes to Make Them Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO-right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives...
The Differentiated Workforce
Translating Talent into Strategic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.
Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high...
The Workforce Scorecard
Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet, in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resources practices...
Give Your Speech, Change the World
How To Move Your Audience to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard? If not, you're not alone. In fact, studies show that audiences remember only 10% to 30% of speech or presentation content. Given those bleak statistics, why do we give speeches at all? We give them, says communications expert Nick Morgan, because...
The Innovator's Guide to Growth
Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks...
Winning Investors Over
Surprising Truths About Honesty, Earnings Guidance, and Other Ways to Boost Your Stock Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Pleasing Wall Street used to be easy for executives. Not anymore. The stock market is an uncertain place, and every day executives have to figure out what investors really want. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this. Get it wrong, and you risk alienating investors as well as employees, consumers,...